Paul Allen
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Nov 6, 2026
Dacre StokerGUEST
There is a set of notes, his research notes, in the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia.
Dacre StokerGUEST
There's a typescript that Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder, owns in Seattle, Washington.
Dacre StokerGUEST
And just recently, we've actually found in the London Library the actual books that he used for his research, because he listed them back of his notes, with notes in the margins.
Dacre StokerGUEST
So it's been like this...
Dacre StokerGUEST
There is a set of notes, his research notes, in the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia.
Dacre StokerGUEST
There's a typescript that Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder, owns in Seattle, Washington.
Dacre StokerGUEST
And just recently, we've actually found in the London Library the actual books that he used for his research, because he listed them in the back of his notes, with notes in the margins.
Dacre StokerGUEST
So it's been like this...
Chris MorenoGUEST
I look for the weirdos.
Chris MorenoGUEST
Daily Irvin taught me when he was working for Paul Allen.
Chris MorenoGUEST
And he said, you got to look for the weirdos.
Chris MorenoGUEST
And he goes, Chris, the best compliment you can give a founder is that they're a weirdo.
Nick DonatoHOST
So there's examples out there where, you know, sure, co-founders can leave, but the business can still be positive and can still blow up.
Paul BensonHOST
Yeah, I mean, Paul Allen was the other co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates.
Paul BensonHOST
And yeah, he got out reasonably early and he bought the Seattle Seahawks and a big super yacht and had a whole bunch of fun.
Nick DonatoHOST
So look where Microsoft is now.
Jason ScukanecHOST
kind of looks like one.
Jason ScukanecHOST
We knew someone that was around Paul Allen.
Jason ScukanecHOST
I guess Paul Allen was kind of a gross old man.
Jason ScukanecHOST
He didn't brush his teeth.
Jason ScukanecHOST
Just because you're rich doesn't mean you can't be a gross old man.
Jason PuckettHOST
And you think about all the success that this organization is experiencing right now.
Jason PuckettHOST
in this moment right from pete carroll to mike mcdonald and i remember before i mean chuck knox was a great coach when i was growing up yeah it it started but this era it started with this guy this guy along with paul allen and others and just the more you can honor him and he gets to to get out there and do things like that it was it was really cool to see him raise the flag
Ray RobertsGUEST
Yeah, we get to interview the flag raiser on the pregame show.
Ray RobertsGUEST
And so I haven't been in person with Mike in a long, long time.
Sarah EnniGUEST
Then in 1997, the Seahawks threatened to leave if they didn't get a new stadium.
Sarah EnniGUEST
Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen stepped in to buy the team.
Sarah EnniGUEST
He put a bunch of money into a new facility and he funded a referendum so that voters could vote to approve it or deny it.
Sarah EnniGUEST
And by a very slim margin, they voted to extend that same Mariners tax to cover a new football stadium.
Alan ShimelHOST
We used to look up to tech people.
Alan ShimelHOST
Everybody wanted to be a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, Paul Allen, Hewlett Packard, Intel.
Alan ShimelHOST
People wanted to be in tech.
Alan ShimelHOST
They wanted to be because tech stood for all the right good things.
ChiefHOST
They designed that stadium.
ChiefHOST
Paul Allen, who was a Microsoft guy who was the owner when they built it, he specifically engineered it.
ChiefHOST
He was one of the first guys to engineer a stadium to trap noise.
ChiefHOST
That's why that stadium is so fucked
Chad HyamsHOST
that the world knows for somebody who's not in our world on this podcast? Like
Bob StewartHOST
you hear in Seattle, it's Bill Gates and Paul Allen, right? They were the Microsoft guys.
Bob StewartHOST
Right,
Chad HyamsHOST
Jobs isn't Jobs without Wozniak.
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